Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-25
EASTERN.
The Dependent Pension
Bill Discussed.
THE VETO Is SUSTAINED.
Labor Organizations Fall Out at
Pittsburg aud Inaugurate
Open Warfare.
THE VETO Is SUSTAINED.
Special to the Herald bv the Associated Press
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
WAsHINGToN, February Ex-senator
Van Wyck offered a resolution declaring
it to be the judgment of the Senate that
Constitutional amendment should be
submitted to the people for the election
of Senators directly by voters, and asked
that it be laid over till tomorrow, when
he will make his remaks npon it.
The House substitute for the fishery
retaliatory bill was disagreed TO and a
conference asked. Edmunds, Frye and
Morgan were appointed Senate conferees.
The bill and amendments then went
over until tomorrow.
A resolution declaring Senator 1ngall $
chosen President pro tenn. of the Ssna te
was laid over until tomorrow.
HOUSE.
Watson, of Indiana, called up the De-
pendent Pension bill, with the veto mes.
sage Of the President thereon. 1t WAS
agreed that the debate should run until
4 o'clock, when the previous question
should be considered as ordered. Con
ger, Of Iowa. thought that the report Of
the Committee on Invalid Pensions was
q complete answer to the Presidents 8
hyperboic criticisms on measures. lie
commented upon the action of the Presi-
dent in vetoips a pending measure. yet
signing the veto of the pension bill,
saying tnat he did not think that the
patriotic people were ready to endorse
such action or commend their chief
ruler for taking it. No protest had
conc against his bill. except from the
Southern States and trom money
centres. Had it come to this, that Wall
street and the solid South were SO
influential in electing the Chief Executive
that they command him to approve a
measure which Injured to the benefit OF
men who had fought against their coun.
try's flag, and to withhold his approval
from one tor the benfit of those whose
sufferings saved the nation aud made il
great. sawyer had no apology to offer
for voting to pass over the veto. the
bill which met with the approval of over
three. .fourths of the people OF this coun.
try.
Warner, of Missouri, said the question
pTeSen eu WIS WuotlAcA thO AlouSo Wouio
stand by the brave men of 1861 and 1865
who were dependent upon their labor for
support, or by the President, whu
refused to sign the bill which
would take old soldiers out OF the
almshouse. The country should blush
to see the least one of its defenders the
inmate of county poorhouse. O'Hara,
of North Carolina, favored the bill and
criticised the ruling of the Pension
Office denying aid to the colored women
who had lost their sons in the war. The
colored men did not so into the war, as
the President indicated, for dollars and
cents. When the Fifty-fourth and
Fifty.fifth Massachusetts, regiments,
composed exclusively of colored men,
went out and the pay-master offered to
pay them less than the other regiments
because they were black, they spurned
the money aud said: "No, We are in
the cause of liberty, and if you cannot
pay us what you pay other soldiers, we
will fight for our flag and country with.
out compensation" (Applause Mr..
Payne, of Pennsylvania, favored the
p ,ssage of the bill over the veto. Mr..
Bragg declared that the press of the
country was opposed TO the bill.
The papers of his State stood
by the President. The great Republican
papers of Ohio sustained the President.
The great Republican papers of Penn
sylvania stood side by side with the
President. The papers of New York,
almost without distinction of party,
stood by the President. That gallant
soldier and Governor of Maine, Cham
berlin, stood by the President.
"Yes," cried Mr.. Boutelle, "and he
stands alone in Maine; applause on the
Republican side) l speak for Maine. !"
[Jeers of the Democrats and cries OF
"Hear! Hear! Maine!"1
Mr.. Bragg, continuing-"That great
soldier, Palmer, of Illinois, stood by the
President; Governor Cox, of Ohio, stood
by the President; Old Dan Sickles,
of the Third Army Corps, said
that the veto was a most glorious
deed. Brave men of all parties stood
by the President. 1t was only little
minded beings that go buzzing about
like insects, that opposed him"
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa (contemptu-
ously)-"You stand by the President"
Mr.. Bragg-"No staff commissary can
ever excite mel am speaking for what
1 consider the soldiers interest. The
largest Grand Army Posts in my State
yesterday resolved not to ask the mem.
bers of Congress to go against the Presi-
dent. Itis only the class, gentlemen, who
hang around Grand Army Posts, who
crowd themselves in to get five dollars q
week and to live upon comrades, who
are making this grand hue and cry. A
soldier prefers to stand on his own record
and does not ask that Congress shall
mark him as q beggar."
Mr.. Steele, of Indiaua-''How about
the Mexican pension bill?"
Mr.. Bragg-'I have said that wished
that the President HAD vetoed it. 1t is
intimated that the bill passed the House
for the benefit of Confederates. ask
any of you, bgoted as you may be, if
you did not get some OF the pork. You
all voted for the bill, and now you have
discov cred that it is monstrosity."
Me- Warnck, of Ohio, declared that
the bill set a premium on pauperism
and improvidence.
Mr.. Morrison, of Illinois-"I voted
for this bill. am satisfied that it does
not contain what its friends claim for it.,
and that it is fairly subject to the objec-
tions waged against it in the veto. Be.
sides, the veto is SO far above the
high water mark of ordinary
executive independence and official man.
hood that l feel like sharing and taking
my little part of the responsibility"
Applause on the Democratic side.) Mr..
McKenly, of Ohio, said that if he could
believe that the beneticiories of the bill
were scoundrels and vagabonds he would
not vote for its passage over the veto Of
the President, but he did not believe
with the gentleman from Wisconsin.
Mr.. Bragg, that the beneticiaries were
sharks or vagabonds or good'for-nothine
scoundrels. He believed there were
thousands scattered over the country
who fought as bravely as the gentleman
from Wisconsin, though they were moi
/ here IN tell of their deeds of courag